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Pterosaurs have been such a staple of dinosaur pop culture that you start thinking they were a relatively "recent" phenomenon. Then you read the timeline mentio
by puranjay 8y ago
Pterosaurs have been such a staple of dinosaur pop culture that you start thinking they were a relatively "recent" phenomenon. Then you read the timeline mentioned in the article - 190-230M years - and it blows you away how long a history this planet has, and now insignificant and short humanity's history is
- sohkamyung 8y agoJust a note that Pterosaurs aren't dinosaurs, although they are consider as 'flying dinosaurs' by pop culture.
- samatman 8y agoI’ll agree with short. Kicking off the fifth extinction isn’t exactly insignificant; more philosophically, I would suggest that significance of an era can only be appreciated by beings with a sense of the past that reaches past their own birth, so perhaps this is the only significant era.